Ollen and a group of his relatives approached the toledo museum and the detroit institute of art with their requests. The family was forced to give these paintings up under duress in 19 38. Could they get them back? And what happened? Two museums turned around and sued the allens. That was in order to, and this is one of those wonderful legal euphemisms, quiet the title to the painting. When the case went to court, the museums won on the narrow grounds that the statute of limitations had expired.